Quick try-out of 3 x 18 coil

[tvr]

The 3 x 18 HOT coil came in today. Did a quick air test then got out for about 30 minutes before it was dark with it mounted on the Tejon. Was at the playground two houses down the road that has a fair amount of iron trash.
First discriminator was set at low side of foil, second discriminator at tab.

First impressions:
It does not seem to discriminate out iron quite as well as standard coil.
I need to pay attention to masking and walk around a target if I am getting some tone around the clicking.
This coil pinpoints well.

The bullet I found was about 3 inches down with a clicking edge, little bit of solid sound in the middle of the clicks. Rotated around the target and the edge smoothed a little at 45 degrees to the original sweep and discriminated out on the second discriminator. At 90 degrees to the first sweep it discriminated out on the first discriminator too. Tried to pin point in all metal and there was iron all around it. Tilted the coil so the front tip was at the ground and rest of coil raised and pinpointed in discriminate. Found it, dug it, but it was pretty iffy sounding.

The tabs hit strong and ranged from 2 to 5 inches down. The screw tops ... one hit hard from one direction and crackled from 90 degrees due to iron next to it, the other hit hard and was about 6 inches down.

The metal button was on the surface and sounded off solid and smooth on both edges and the middle of the coil width in both discriminators (3 beeps per pas over the target). Raised the coil about 4 or 5 inches until there was one beep per pass, pinpointed, then grabbed the surface dirt and there it was ... no digging.
Looks like the ticket for covering ground, but not if it is trashy.
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[Scully]

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[Gunnar of bradford MN]

you gotthat right best use a smaller widescan in trashy ground but just hink how fast you couls cover a tot lot , what i like about my Golden is i can hear the iron and just skip it try a football feild or basball diamond thats whear that thing will shine

 

[tvr]

Gunnar,
Hoping to get out to a couple of soccer fields with the big coil sometime in the not too distant future.

Keep that Golden singing!

Scully,
I tried it reversed in the front yard, then flipped it. I did not think it changed the balance on the Tejon that much but did cut down the total area swept with it reversed. I went with the long end forward (normal). I hunted left handed ... still favoring my right elbow a bit ... I am better keeping the coil flat and level right handed but am improving left handed. I am also going to work on a counter balance ... have the pieces collected for the counter balance, just haven't put it all together yet.
Cheers,
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